A round stone plaque engraved with a sun motif.
How did prehistoric people respond to natural disasters? Some of 2025's most-read research suggested a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun caused people in Neolithic Denmark to ritually sacrifice 'sun stones' to ensure a good harvest.
Read it 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Reconstruction of the impressive Bronze Age Dover boat (at half scale) at the Maitres du Feu Bronze Age exhibition at the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale at Saint Germain-en-Laye 🚣♀️ 🇫🇷
Great day at MAN Saint Germain yesterday discussing the different Bronze Age exhibitions of the past years during the APRAB thematic day.
Human form or shape
The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!
This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.
Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start
Length: 5.6 cm
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺
For #FindsFriday this beautiful anthropomorphic hammer for metalworking from la petite Laugère Saône-er-Loire 🇫🇷 spotted at the magnificent Maîtres du Feu exhibition at the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale à Saint-Germain.
Mooi eerbetoon!!! Wat een toffe collega toch en bij afgestudeerd! 💪https://www.mareonline.nl/achtergrond/hoe-een-pionierende-prof-opbokste-tegen-mannen-mijn-houding-was-altijd-ik-zal-je-krijgen
🪨Neolithic small pointed end flint axehead/elongate chisel tool 80mmx51mm. In the style of the Michelsberg Culture most probably used for small scale wood working. The earliest farmers would have been wealthy people, trading their knowledge & tools #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral
Another piece of history disintegrates. Ethically this is not acceptable.
“They were bought by the same anonymous collector from the United States.
All the auctioned coins were sold, but Licence and the landowner chose to keep a single stater each.”
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New paper! Led by Łukasz Kowalski, on drinking milk in the Funnel Beaker Culture, arguing for the complex interplay between gender, burial rites, and potentially ritual drinking of dairy products.
Open Access in Praehistorische Zeitschrift www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The findings that come from an DNA studies fascinate me. The fact that DNA can even be extracted from ancient bones (and sometimes teeth) is amazing.
Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected share.google/WJYszOE4b4PE...
🪨Large Neolithic black flint core. The flake removal is in the style of Central Continental Europe, indicative of the Michelsberg Culture. Evidence of the first farmers migrating from Europe and settling in the interior of Wirral #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic
Goed bezig! Tijd dat ik ook weer eens ga! Eind mei @rmoudheden.bsky.social strandstruindag
In der Arabischen Wüste existieren teils kilometerlange Trockenmauer-Strukturen, die aus der Luft wie Drachen aussehen. Die Doku "Rätselhafte Wüstendrachen" begleitet das South-Eastern Badia Archaeological Project bei der Untersuchung des Phänomens. Jetzt in der @zdfde.bsky.social-Mediathek 👇 (1/2)
Vanmorgen gevonden op de Zandmotor, tussen Monster en Den Haag. Een vuurstenen kern uit het Mesolithicum! Blijft toch enorm gaaf dat je de eerste mens bent, die dit in handen heeft, nadat hij er klaar mee was in de steentijd!
Mooie vondst Gerard!
A new study suggests the “Neanderthal deserts” on the human X chromosome may be from mate preference rather than natural selection acting on deleterious genes. 🧪🏺
Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Where do I start?! 1/4
Cool News!
But that is not counting the Homo erectus engraved shell in the Dubois collection!
Terribly misleading headline. I suspect the cost is more to do with "Technical challenges in uncovering the River Sheaf have been the other main reason for the programme extensions and cost increases"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🏺 #archaeology
A heavy and complex #heritage - Amazing example of close connection between #environment, natural resources, #pollution and colonial history in #Wales.
#envhist #pb #lead #metal #mining #Romans #geology #AmgueddfaCymru #archaeology #history #Ceredigion #ingot 🐖
press.museum.wales/news/rare-ro...
An aerial plan view of the Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb. The tomb is pictured from directly overhead, allowing a view of the central gallery that is framed by upright stones, with a kerb and cairn forming a roughly horseshoe shaped mound around it.
Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb • Dublin
Located in the Glencullen Adventure Park, on the Dublin Mountains Way, this wedge tomb at Ballyedmonduff is one of the finest examples of its type in Ireland.
It dates to around c.2500 BC, and it is one of a number of wedge tombs in the Dublin Mountains
#Ireland
Interesting lecture on the early Neolithic and monumental Tas Tepeler site complex @rmoudheden.bsky.social
Glass ceiling of a museum with the text 'Museums and Display, Antiquity'.
Show some love to your local museum this #MuseumsAdvocacyDay!
If you'll allow us our own museums advocacy, our 'Museums and Display' collection highlights the importance of museums for #archaeology research, heritage protection, cultural exchange & much more!
🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
DNA study uncovers continental origins of Britain’s bronze age population
theconversation.com/dna-study-un...
